Katara Week 2023, Day One - Moon
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Stirred by the repetitive, involuntary motions of her body, Katara peeled her eyes open. There beholds the dead of night. Fewer white lights twinkled freely with Yue in the centre, still watching over the stars, watching over the sea, and watching over her. Her arms and legs spread, bilaterally extended to each quadrant on the ice sheet she rested on. Body exposed, bare and vulnerable as the eternal moon goddess remained for all with the naked eye.
“You’re too far.” Katara declared.
She pulls the water to her, pushing off from the island, the vortex devouring her. She erupts and flies, reaching out to the moon as she plunges into the ocean below. It was there she watches the goddess disappear into the sky.
Here came the sun anew. Each morning rays hotter than before until they engulfed her whole.